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Which key event happened in 1798?
The First Vaccine is used to prevent smallpox
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What year was the Royal College of Surgeons created?
1800
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Which key event happened in 1846?
Chloroform is first used as an anesthetic
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What year were the first Public Health acts introduced?
1848
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Which key event happened in 1842?
Chadwick Report on Public Health proved poor not responsible for illness
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What year was Germ Theory published, causing a Paradigm Shift?
1863
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Which year were the First sewers built in London?
1858
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Which key event happened in 1867?
Joseph Lister first uses Carbolic Acid as an antiseptic
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Which key event occurred in 1886 - 1903?
Charles Booth made reports on Living conditions in London found 30% poverty rate
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Which key event occurred in 1899-1901?
Seebohm Rowntree
reports on living conditions in York found 30% poverty rate.
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Who was John Hunter?
promoted scientific method, taught many doctors (e.g. Jenner) collected specimens, gave himself syphilis
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Who was Edward Jenner?
Used scientific method to create first vaccine.
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Who was Humphry Davey?
experimented with nitrous oxide (laughing gas)
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Who was Horace Wells?
used anesthetic to pull out his own teeth
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Who was William Clark?
used ether to extract teeth, doctors took notice
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Who was Crawford Long?
used ether in surgery (to remove neck growth)
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Who was James Simpson?
discovered chloroform by knocking over bottle
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Who was Louis Pasteur?
Germ theory 1863, discoveries in vaccination & pasteurization
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Who was Thomas Wells?
inspired by Pasteur-suggests microbes cause infection
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Who was John Snow?
proved link between dirt water & cholera, proved contagion was right
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Who was Joseph Lister?
pioneered use of antiseptics, publicized Pasteur’s ideas
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Who was Bazalgette?
built sewers & saw off cholera
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What is Scientific Method?
The way scientists work e.g. experiments, results, analysis
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What is inoculation?
infecting patient with small dose of disease
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What is vaccination?
infecting patient with small (dead) dose of disease
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Which disease is spread by dirty water and killed thousands?
Cholera
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Which illness was spread by dirty water/food?
Typhus
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What is the name of the lung disease that was the number 1 cause of death in Victorian Britain?
Tuberculosis
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What is Anthrax?
lethal disease, causes skin infection, spreads to lungs
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What is the name of the medicine that kills disease germs, nothing else?
Magic bullet
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What is syphilis?
STD, causes facial disfigurement
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Which political group wanted to help the poor?
New liberalism
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What is Laissez faire?
government should let people fix their own problems
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What is spontaneous generation?
e.g.) Charlton Bastian- idea that disease is caused by chemical reactions
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Who is Robert Koch?
founder of bacteriology, found germs for anthrax, cholera & tuberculosis
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Who is Paul Ehrlich?
Koch’s assistant, discover salvarsan 606, first magic bullet
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What is an Anti-Contagionist?
(e.g. William Farr, Florence Nightingale, James Simpson) clean up environment to stop disease
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What is a Contagionist?
(e.g. John Simon) quarantine patients to stop disease
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